Today my computer started to act funny...
when i booted up recently, everytime i went to open a program, it told me that it couldnt find the specified file and that i dont have the permission to open them.
weird?
i am the administrator on my computer..
i wanted to do a clean install of everything anyways..so whatever
how can i wipe my hard drives clean without a cd
i tried with a wipe utility on boot and it says that it cannot find drive (meaning the drive with the cd in it) (and yes i set the bios to boot on cd) didnt work
any ideas?????
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You could use a boot floppy disk for bootdisk.com and fdisk the drive and format it to wipe it. But it should really boot of the CD/DVD drive if it is set in the bios do you have 2 CD/DVD drives?
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okay i got it working now!
i just tried it again and it booted normal ![]() thanks
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